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Did E.T. really come from Calcutta, India?
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 06:00
This is a satirical commercial for Chicharonis, a type of junk food we hope never exists.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 01:00
This short comedy sketch is an advertisement for a fictitious culinary concoction.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 01:14
"Airport Safety" is a short, humorous satire of TSA regulations—and popular culture. This is a sound-rich protest piece, perfect for a comedy progr...
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 02:19
Metheny grew up in a musical family, starting on trumpet at the age of eight and switching to guitar a few years later. By age 15 he was mentored b...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 12
The long shadow of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 06:00
For a little while, in the hills of Rishikesh, India it will be 1968 again.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 4
Sandip Roy remembers the iconic Indian actress Sridevi.
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 06:00
A work of art sparking protest is nothing new, but Padmavati takes the art of taking offence to another level.
- Added: Dec 04, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 06:00
A debate about whether Nolan’s Dunkirk whitewashes history is perfectly legitimate but seventy years after India’s Independence isn’t it also time ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Jeff Adams of Artesian Farms
On this episode, Romy catches back up with Jeff Adams of Artesian Farms in Detroit. She interviewed him in Season 1, ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 34:03
Motown Rising with Jacob de Golish!
This episode has a lot to do with building, construction, restoration and the skilled trades. Jacob walks us ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2017
- Length: 31:15
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
In these moments, we learn some cool facts about one of the best piano innovators of all time, NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 11
It must sting Hindu Americans that Aslan, an Iranian-American often called upon to speak out against stereotyping Islam, seems to be now playing a ...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 05:59
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 05:38
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Affliction by Russell Banks.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:42
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Unpronounceable by Susan diRende.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:51
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about fateful explorers in the Arctic.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:45
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Belief in Angels by J. Dylan Yates.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 02:36
